Nautile aka Charles Hamel's personal pages

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STILL IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE :

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GABRIEL RICHIR

Gabriel is ( sorry to everyone else ) the guy whose work with cordages has
impressed me most.


Gabriel's book     L'APPEL DU LARGE  Matelotage traditionnel et arts populaires marins
must be on one of your books shelves.
My copy was a gift from Alcosinus with a very special dedicace.

Here are 4 pictures given by Gabriel through Alcosinus..



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DON WRIGHT GREAT CONTRIBUTION
A very great thank you Don for your kind offer.

Added 2008 November 28th  :
Don can be reached using members' list on www.khww.net

SLIDESHOWS
---  crocodile-ridge step by step in pictures
--- Fancy knotwork
--- Houndtooth pseudo-THK
--- Leatherwork
--- Miscellanies
--- Unusual pseudo-THK

A .PDF tutorial on the crocodile ridge braid
Here is the crocodile ridge

A special project for a biker : Don made them for his brother's  Harley Davidson, they
hang from the handles.
[open quote]8 strands top to bottom, a couple of Spanish Ring Knots, some Gaucho knots, Pineapples and a few MKWs and some 8 strand square braid, a couple of 5X4 Turkheads, 2 Footrope knots and lots of hours.[end quote]



Added 2008 September 17th
A splendid spherical covering made on a baseball ball using Nono and Alcosinus template.

Added 2008 September 17th
A bit like a box of chocolates but  it is knots : chose your flavour.

Added 2008 July  21st
Don's brother was king enough to send pictures of his moor bike showing the "special
project for a biker" in action ! WOOOW ! ( don't want any misundertsanding, exclamative
 is for both brothers )
Bike one       Bike two




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A GREAT BELL ROPE from JAMES MANNELL ( inspired by Vince BRENNAN
tutorial )

Added 2008 August 26th

James was introduced to me by Vince BRENNAN  end of last June beginning of July
because this Englishman has the good luck to live in Brittany and had just taken to knot
tying.

James made himself proud by crafting this splendid piece.

"normal" size slideshow
original (big) size slideshow

Bell rope is shown unvarnished and varnished.



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HERRINGBONE SAILOR'S KNIFE LANYARD by ALCOSINUS
(Des PAWSON taught Alcosinus this knot at DIEPPE (France)
Added 2008 August 21rst

Sorry but I had to tweak some badly exposed photos  : backlighting  to get them
interpretable.

The knot
Bosco_1
Bosco_2
Bosco_3



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BILLIARD BALL WITH SPHERICAL COVERING made by ALCOSINUS and
given to me

Added 2008 August 19th

This was made with the template Nono and Alcosinus published and that you can find in
the appropriate page here (read contents  to find which one)

Up to 40 hours of delicate work to make this one



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ROY CHAPMAN ( ex Igkt-PAB President )
Added 2008 August 18th

With  this man of heart and value permission here is some new covering that will teach you
to make your own derivation of mat to covering.

Roy's explanations   and   Roy's article

Roy's realisations

Roy's diagrams

Roy's wonderful illustration, worthy of a professional illustrator, of the mirroring trick.

All this was made into Roy's article in Knot News #69 Sept 2008



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JIMBO AGAIN  : a keyfob
Added 2008 July 22nd

[open quote]
This is the first.  (ABOK #'s: 32, 778, 790, 778, 788 w. marble superglued in)  I am
halfway done with the second...  Having trouble getting the two 778's tightened up close
(no gaps) to the 790...
[end quote]

You can access photographies by Jimbo here.

I am jumping on the occasion of making good my procrastination at putting in line
JIMBO'S NEEDLE FID for special splices



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JIMBO ONCE AGAIN : A NEAT SPLICE
Added 2008 July 18th

A neat splicing perfectly explained with a few photographies.



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FCB aka Frank Charles Brown  

Frank wrote two digital books (contact Frank via the member list at KHWW his pseudo
is Bowline)  about making animals in knots : A ZOO and A MENAGERIE

Added 2008 Sept 12th
This was just sent to me by Frank , an encounter in Zion Canyon while journeying
in the USA with beautiful Lady Lynn Brown.
The creator met his creature !


Added 2008 July 20th
Another  wonderful frog taking a bath in the nude !

Added 2008 July 14th
Here is one of his latest creation for his famous hat ornamented with his beasts .
A wonderful FROG  ( no, no, that is no allusion to us French ! )



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JIMMY R. WILLIAMS  aka Aknotter

Added 2008 July 14th :
today is France Fête Nationale and this tricouloured
monkey-fist has the set of colours France's flag.

Jimmy kindly allowed me to put it here.

Added 2008 October 24th :
A GREAT TUTORIAL on this THREE COLOURS
MONKEY'S FIST  by Jimmy is available.  (read contents  to find where)


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DEREK SMITH

Derek Smith is in the course of building a drawing , coding, identifying  utility, following
Frank Charles Brown idea for symbols.
You can follow his endeavour here .
http://knotcyphers.pbwiki.com/The+FCB+Cypher



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Copyright 2005 Sept - Charles Hamel / Nautile -
Overall rewriting in August 2006 . Copyright renewed. 2007-2012 -(each year of existence)

Url : http://charles.hamel.free.fr/knots-and-cordages/